Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.